The X,Y,Z affair was an incident between French and American diplomats where they were trying to make a deal that would stop the French from seizing the America ships.
(that resulted in a war known as the Quasi-War.)
Americans were angered by this because the French agents wanted large amounts of money just to stop them from seizing their ships
Answer:
Depreciate in value, be a weaker currency
Explanation:
Depreciation in value means that it is going down in value. you can buy less for the same amount of money today that you could buy last year for example.
Being a weaker currency means that in comparison to other currencies around the world the weaker one has less value. So today 1 USD is worth 0.77 British pounds, but if reversed then the pound would be a weaker currency.
Europeans started to enslave Africans.
They started to use slaves instead of indentured servants, because the investment was better. Indentured servants only served for a few years, and then were granted freedom, while slaves were purchased and used for their entire lives. The investment of a slave was better than an indentured servant.
This thoery says that history has an impact on the personas developed by futher generations.
<u>Explanation:</u>
According to the theory given by Stauss and Howe, historical events have an effect and impact on the recurring generational personas from one generation to the other.
Each persona of a new generation unleashes and develops a new era which might go on for the next 20 to 25 years. In this new era, new political. economical climate will exist in the society.
The answer would be D, ruled by a small group.
